Posted on 05/06/2023 11:38:50 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss, an Academy Award–winning actor best known for his role in the Jaws, said in an interview that the new diversity rules imposed by the Oscars for films to be eligible for the “Best Picture” award “make me vomit.”
“They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss told Margaret Hoover on Firing Line which aired Friday night on PBS. “This is an art form. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.”
New policies enacted by the Oscrars in 2024 will see film award eligibility dependent upon meeting two of four stipulated diversity benchmarks. One, for instance, mandates a third of a movie cast must be comprised of “an underrepresented group.”
The actor also discussed his decades-long commitment to improving civics education. In 2006, the star created the Dreyfuss Civics Initiative aimed at revitalizing national awareness of government and politics.
“I think we’re in the endgame right now,” he told PBS. “We could let slip the greatest idea for governance ever devised, and we won’t even know that it happened.”
“I still can’t really wrap my head around the fact that people confuse being exposed to an opposing view on any subject with being a traitor or with being a subversive.”
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I’m in the same boat, Richard.
Glad to see the liberal Hollowoodies are going to participation trophies. LOL. FOOLS!
You reaped what you sowed.
No one should show up, that would fix things pretty quickly.
Communism? Already been tried. Fails every time.
He helped build this circus. Now their cancer is eating them.
Agree- Dreyfuss is a lefties. Too bad for you
Kill yourself, Dick. You and your kind brought this on and are killing what’s left of our country.
One, for instance, mandates a third of a movie cast must be comprised of “an underrepresented group.”
1/3 of all the cast must be from such groups?
How is this not a quota system?
How about MAGA voters?
I’ll give him credit for being right about this.
“one of the jerks who set us on the path to destruction and now he does not like the results”
Much like bill mahr......everybody wants to say what a voice of reason he is for libs.........bull5h!t.......he despised Conservativsm as much as ever and if he had his way it would be made illegal tomorrow.
These peare hateful and you should never trust ‘em.....ever.
He’s too old to care about being invited to the cool parties now so what the hell.
The libs are starting to get the message (some of them)
😊
The Hollywood elites (no Dreyfus) are going to see the repercussions of their liberalism, with the DEI insanity.
We get a taste of that now, where every other commercial now stars blacks and Hispanics and other minorities, to the extend that, whiles are now the minorities getting commercial starring roles.
The movies and TC shows are also hiring more blacks and Hispanics than whites, and even some roles which were obviously written for whites, are now taken by blacks.
An alien new to the planet would have to conclude that, most people on Earth are blacks and Hispanics.
But, it’s not just the entertainment industry, because we can see the DEI intrusion in politics and government, where just about every city now has black mayors and mostly black and Hispanics in city councils, and most police forces are now blacks and Hispanics. It wouldn’t be so bad if that had improved law-enforcement, but, most of those roles have made cities and towns go down the sewer.
(just my 2 cents)
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